Tech

Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-9

President Trump says he will sign “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-9 Trump AI

India's Tata Electronics signs up Intel as the first prospective client for its upcoming chip facilities; Tata is investing ~$14B to build in Gujarat and Assam (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-9 India Intel

IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-9 IBM

An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-8

Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case (stratechery.com)
2025-12-8 YouTube Netflix

The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but “the case is not closed” (www.ft.com)
2025-12-8 Facebook Instagram

Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI “bubble” (ig.ft.com)
2025-12-8 AI

Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-8 Alibaba AI WeChat Tencent

Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (www.ft.com)
2025-12-8 Startup Singapore

Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-8

Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers (apnews.com)
2025-12-8 AI Canada Facial Recognition

Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories (blog.google)
2025-12-8 Google AI

An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (restofworld.org)
2025-12-8 China Interview AI WhatsApp

Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-8 AI

Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-8 India Coinbase

Was the Airbus A320 Recall Caused By Cosmic Rays? (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-8 Airbus

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-8 Startup AI

How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert national currencies to stablecoins and then debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-8

All of Russia's Porsches Were Bricked By a Mysterious Satellite Outage (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-8 Russia

Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-8 IBM

A look at an “etiquette camp” for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-8 San Francisco

Can This Simple Invention Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-8

Impressions from a test ride in London in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy (www.ft.com)
2025-12-8 London

Why Meetings Can Harm Employee Well-Being (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-8

EU Urged to Soften 2035 Ban on Internal Combustion Engine Cars (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-8 Ban

Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-8 Portugal

Confidently step into IT with this $25 CompTIA course bundle deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-8

OpenAI denies rolling out ads on ChatGPT paid plans (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-8

President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have “to go through a process”, as it would create an entity with “a lot of market share” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-8 Trump Netflix

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